. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . w ill i. \w.\s BOAT. BY THE LAKE SHORE To face p. 62. ! ! THE LILLOOET COUNTRY 63 down. On a mountain ahead we have amused our-selves in the evenings tracing fantastic shapes inthe snow patches, one resembling a camel, another ahorses head, another a priest with a girl kneelingbefore him, another a rooster, and so on, so wechristen it Picture Mountain, and our next campis in the valley at its foot. We are now in Schwartzsspecial hunting ground ; he tells us that there havenot been more than a dozen white people in thispart of the country
. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . w ill i. \w.\s BOAT. BY THE LAKE SHORE To face p. 62. ! ! THE LILLOOET COUNTRY 63 down. On a mountain ahead we have amused our-selves in the evenings tracing fantastic shapes inthe snow patches, one resembling a camel, another ahorses head, another a priest with a girl kneelingbefore him, another a rooster, and so on, so wechristen it Picture Mountain, and our next campis in the valley at its foot. We are now in Schwartzsspecial hunting ground ; he tells us that there havenot been more than a dozen white people in thispart of the country before us, and of these, twohave been ladies ! Falconer has been here severaltimes, but he does not know the country likeSchwartz does. It is a great hunting district forthe Chilcotin Indians who live farther to the north,but come here in the summer to hunt and collectroots. Then we proceed down to Whitewater Lakes,two long, narrow sheets of water connected by achannel half a mile Jong and only some two hundredyards wide. Neither lake is more than two orthree miles wide a
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